Os mandarins amazonenses: as representações da intelectualidade local sobre Zona Franca de Manaus e globalização

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the representations of Amazonian intelligentsia about the phenomenon of the Manaus Free Zone, Industrial Pole of Manaus today, and globalization. The study takes the MFZ as a fruit of the historicity of capitalism and sees the intelligentsia as a group that promotes the self-consciousness of society, reflecting on the most pressing issues of his time and is distinguished from other social groups by their academic training. Policy, university and journalism that are, or have been, involved with the theme of the Manaus Free Zone: Ten intellectuals stemmed from different areas were chosen. The methodology was qualitative and consisted of direct interviews with the help of the recorder and reading the works of respondents. Thus, we seek to understand how different groups of intellectuals, understood as a detached layer, sighted the MFZ and how the process of globalization affects the Amazonian reality. The research aims to show how the recent processes of globalization and globalization influence ways of thinking and questioning society. The conclusions reached by the research is that the social representations of the local intellectual elite are determined not only by local and national demands, but also by global demands.